The Audrey Hepburn Story

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The Audrey Hepburn Story was a 2000 television movie biography of actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who also produced the film, starred as the actress although her casting drew criticism from Hepburn's fans and the media. A pre-stardom Emmy Rossum appears during early scenes of the film playing Hepburn in her early teens.

[edit] Plot

The film spans from her early childhood to the 1960's which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as My Fair Lady.

The closing credits include footage of the real Audrey Hepburn during one of the UNICEF missions she undertook near the end of her life.

[edit] Broadcast

Several versions of the film were aired. On the American Fox Network, it aired as a three-hour movie, while in other countries a longer version was broadcast over two nights.